Monthly Archives: November 2009

And, actu­ally, writ­ten by a Nor­we­gian, Roy Jac­ob­sen.  It’s a novel called, in Eng­lish trans­la­tion, “The Burnt-Out Town of Mir­acles” set in WWII in the Finnish Winter, when the inhab­it­ants of a small town set fire to it and leave, … Con­tinue read­ing →

The arm­chair trav­el­ler. — first to Stock­holm and South­ern Sweden with Stieg Larsson and his amaz­ing tri­logy start­ing with “The Girl with the Dragon Tat­too.”  Clearly the work of an obsess­ive — every jour­ney is lov­ingly detailed, street by street, … Con­tinue read­ing →